The man they wanted a blood sample from WAS THE VICTIM of a hit and run, not the perp.
The new laws are, "whatever they make up, is the law" It doesn't matter of they would arrest you and imprison you for YEARS FOR DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING. WHEN THEY DO IT - AND THEY DO IT ALOT, LIKE EVERY SINGLE DAY ALL OVER THE COUNTRY - NOTHING HAPPENS TO THEM.
Via The Daily Bell
But none of these legal facts stopped the police from placing the nurse under arrest.
Wubbles was handcuffed and placed in a police vehicle for hours, threatened, beaten, and extorted to give in to performing an illegal blood test on a accident victim in a coma.The new laws are, "whatever they make up, is the law" It doesn't matter of they would arrest you and imprison you for YEARS FOR DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING. WHEN THEY DO IT - AND THEY DO IT ALOT, LIKE EVERY SINGLE DAY ALL OVER THE COUNTRY - NOTHING HAPPENS TO THEM.
Via The Daily Bell
“Is this patient under arrest?” Alex Wubbles asks the officer, being instructed by legal counsel on the phone.
“Nope,” the officer says.
“Do you have an electronic warrant?” She asks, searching for a way to legally comply with the officers.
“No,” The officer admits bluntly, getting annoyed.
The
police did not have a warrant. The police did not have probable cause.
The man was not under arrest. The unconscious patient could not consent.
The
nurse, Alex, printed out the hospital’s policy which the Salt Lake City
Police Department agreed to. She showed it to the officers. She clearly
and calmly listed the three things which would allow her to give the
police the blood sample: a warrant, patient consent, or a patient under
arrest.
The police had none of these things.
“Okay,
so I take it, without those in place, I am not going to get blood?” The
Officer Jeff Payne is heard saying behind his body cam.
The legal counsel on the phone tries to tell the officer not to blame the messenger, and that he is making a big mistake.
Then, the officer attacks the nurse, Alex Wubbles. He drags her outside, and handcuffs her, while she cries.
“What is going on?!” She says exasperated, wondering why they are doing this to her.
She
couldn’t just break the hospital policy and put her job in jeopardy
because some police officers illegally told her to. She couldn’t simply
collude with the lawbreakers–the police–and illegally hand over a blood
sample on behalf of an unconscious patient.
That would have opened her up to lawsuits and job loss.
The
officers were, in fact, breaking the law. They had no legal right to
demand blood from an unconscious patient who could not consent.
The
man they wanted blood from was a truck driver who had struck a vehicle
being pursued by the police. It is unclear why they would even need a
blood sample from the victim.
But none of these legal facts stopped the police from placing the nurse under arrest.
Wubbles was handcuffed and placed in a police vehicle. She was never actually charged.
You could chalk this up to one crazy officer, Detective Jeff Payne with the Salt Lake City Police.
But
then his supervisor showed up to the scene. While the nurse was
handcuffed in the cruiser, the supervisor started to lecture her.
“There
are civil remedies,” he said, telling her she should have broken the
law when the officer told her to. Of course, this ignored the fact that
she would have been caught up in the civil action against the officers!
It’s
like an episode of the Twilight Zone as the Supervisor lies and says
the nurse was obstructing justice. All the nurse wanted was a warrant
signed by a judge, the legal requirement to execute a search! And yet
not just Officer Payne, but his Supervisor insist that she should have
given them what they wanted, without a warrant.
Listening
to the Supervisor’s justification is a real trip. He repeatedly says,
things like, “If you already have a sample, we can just go get a
warrant, but all I’m hearing is no, no, no.”
